—Lancaster Fannin, Saturday, Ocjpber 21,197«
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COMMENTS By DIETER KRIEG, EDITOR |
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Help keep the poultry industry, healthy
In March of this year, Lancaster
County Extension agent and poultry
specialist Jay Irwin said: "We hope
people take it seriously and not think
the disease can’t happen to them.”
N Those same words still hold true
today.
Despite-warnings and preventive
efforts by countless individuals and
several large organizations, a
notorious disease known as
laryngotracheitis - "LT”- spread
through poultry flocks in Lancaster
County last Fall, Winter and Spring.
Nobody knows for sure what the
exact poultry death toll or dollar loss
was during the Oct. 1977 to May
1978 period that the disease
repeatedly surfaced in Lancaster
County. It is known that more than a
half million birds were affected. It is
also known that the incidents
became so alarming that the Lan
caster County Po'ultry Association
formed a special’LT Task Force to
contain the disease. Joining the
effort were the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, Penn
State University, and PennAg In
dustries Association, to name a few.
The above statistics should speak
TO CONTINUE
GRAZING CAUTIOUSLY
Several phone calls to our
Extension office recently
referred to the dangers of
pasturing forage crops after
being frosted. Ail of the
permanent grasses such as
bluegrass, orchard grass, or
brome grass, can be safely
grazed at any time of the
yetu*; this is also true of any
of the small grain cover
BASEMENT
WINDOW
Lesson for October 22, 1978
Background Scripture:
Exodus 20; 14
Matthew 5:27-30;
Galatians 5:16-24;
John 8:1-11.
RURAL ROUTE
for themselves regarding the weight
of the problem. What’s more, the
potential for more LT outbreaks is
very real.
LT does not occur during warm
weather, say poultry health
specialists. But it can hit hard during
cool weather, which is what we’re
heading into now. The blunt reality of
the matter is that due to the out
breaks that took place earlier this
year, the dreaded disease can return
at even greater strength this Fall and
Winter and into Spring.
But there is hope that it won’t
happen. And there is a relatively
simple solution to prevent further
outbreaks.
The solution is a'combination of
first of all being aware of the problem
and, secondly, good security
measures coupled with immunization
of flocks.
According to avian health
authorities at the Bureau of Animal
Industry in Harrisburg, one of the
primary thrusts for containing the'
disease must be aimed at backyard
poultry flock owners. They are known
to be a chief source of the disease. To
get the words of advice- and
crops such as rye, wheat, or
barley. All of these are not
toxic when frozen and
usually do not present any
bloating problem.
However, the legumes
such as clover and alfalfa
should be grazed very
carefully; they are not toxic,
after being frosted, but will
cause severe bloating if
consumed while the frost is
on the leaves. Allow the frost
to thaw, and the plants to
become dry, before turning
in the herd or flock.
Also, any of the sudan
grasses or sorghum hybrids
should not be grazed for at
least a week after being
Devotionalßeadlng:
Romans 2:17-24.
There’s an old Arab story
about a desert chieftan who
was awakened in his tent in
the middle of the night by a
strange noise. “Who’s
there?” he called. “It’s only
me,” replied his camel, “It’s
so cold outside that I just
stuck my nose inside the tent
to keep it warm.” Anxious to
get back to sleep, the Arab
grumbled. “Oh, all right, but
you come in no further.”
After a while, the Arab
awoke again and this time
his camel explained that it
had gotten so cold'that he
had stuck his head in to keep
it warm. “All right,”
frozen. Neither should the
new growth, after being
frozen, be consumed.
TODEHORN
DAIRY CALVES
This is a good practice at discomfort to the calf than
any time of the year. Horns* other methods. This piece of
on dairy cows are about as equipment should be in
useless as teats on a bull; at every dairyman’s equip
one time in our civilization ment chest,
they were needed for TO TREAT FOR
protection from other
animals. This is no longer
needed; in fact, horns in a
herd of modem dairy cows
can do far more harm than
good. They can be termed as
possible hazards to other
cattle and to human beings.
The best way to prevent
growled the chieftan, “but
that’s as far as you come.”
The tent was getting
crowded and the Arab was
beginning to be cramped for
space.
As the first rays of sunlight
came flooding over the
desert, the Arab awoke
shivering outside his tent
while the camel slept
peacefully and snugly in
side!
The Power Of Looking
The moral of this shaggy
camel story is obviously that
if you give some people or
things a small part of your
life, they may end up taking
over everything. If you want
to keep the camel out, you
preventive medicine to them, all
persons who are somehow related to
Lancaster County's $B7 million per
year poultry industry are asked to
help.
Chicken farmers and poultry
servicemen are being urged to follow
the strictest precautions in their own
work, while persuading others to do
likewise. One of the biggest aims of
the campaign is to encourage the
immunization of backyard poultry
flocks.
While immunization is regarded to
be extremely important, security
procedures for flocks and those who
work with them are also essential for
control of the disease. Last Spring,
for example, Lancaster County
poultrymen were encouraged to keep
their hen houses locked and to not
allow anyone into them without
special permission. The disease -
caused by a virus and carrying an up
to 17 per cent mortality rate - can be
transmitted from one place to
another through clothing, wild birds,
pets, rodents, and eyen tools. That’s
why everyone connected with or
even just visiting poultry farms is
warned to take note of the warnings.
hom growth is to dehorn the
small calves when two to six
weeks of age. The electric
dehomer is very popular at
this time and results in less
STOMACH WOR^dS
Before animals are moved
into their Winter quarters, it
might be well to check for
stomach worm infestation.
In this part of the country,
with the high livestock
population, internal
parasites are very common.
don’t allow even his nose
inside your tent.
This is what Jesus is
saying when he interprets
the commandment, “You
shall not commit adultery.”
Many of his contemporaries
were smug in their belief
that this conimandment
would never stand as a
judgement upon them: they '
had no intention to commit
adultery.
Jesus punctured their
smugness when he said,
“But I say to you that
everyone who looks at a
woman lustfully has already
committed adultery with her
in his heart” (Matthew
By Tom Armstrong
These blood-sucking worms
reduce the health of the
animals and result in poor
growth and development.
Samples of the manure* can
be taken to the local
veterinarian for exact worm
infection.
Research work shows that
for each dollar spent for
worm treatment, followed
by good sanitary practices,
livestock producers can
expect ten dollars in return.
Worm treatment can be
given by paste, drench,
wormer feed, or by injection.
The important thing is to
check for infestation and
what seem to be “harmless”
thoughts; we are likely to
find that we will be more and
more engrossed in them,
until at last the final step into
action is easy and
uninhibited. ' /
Spmeone has rightly ob
served that, if' you want to
keep thieves out of your'
Lock All Windows house it is not enough simply
Jesus is also saying that, if to lock the front and back
we want to keep from doors and perhaps the first
committing adultery, the floor windows. The whole
best place to set up, our house must be secured*
defences is with our thoughts Many a presumably secure
and feelings. This is where house has been violated
adultery first takes place through an' unlocked
just as murder first becomes basement window. And so it
possible in hateful thoughts is with all the temptations of
and it is here that we must life. If we would keep them
begin our resistance to out of our lives, we must
temptation. If we entertain deny them every entrance.
9:28). But who can escape
such a judgement? lie
answer: very few. And the
meaning is that one does not
escape sin by stopping short
of the act of adultery. It is
the lustful thought that
eventually produces the
lustful act.
D. 2l Monday, Oct 23
Pumpkin Contest at Cedar Pennsylvania State Grange
a * Convention convenes at
10 117I 17 Butler. Activities con
-272-2031, Ext. 57 for tinue through Thursday,
details. International symposium on
Snowmobile show at Twin- Large Area Crop In-
Valley High School, ventory Experiment,
Elverson, 9:30 a.m. to 2
p.m.
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It’s a control effort which can't be
handled by just one person or even
100 individuals. It requires the
cooperation of as many people as
possible if it is to be effective in
protecting the Garden Spot’s egg,
broiler, and hatchery farms.
If isn’t done now to
prevent the outbreak of IT, the slim
profits experienced by many could
turn into heavy losses. It's time that
poultry flock owners - large and small
; as well as servicemen, take their
responsibilities and call for help i
seriously. A lot of grjqf can be
avoided if the LT matter receives
prompt and effective attention.
One little mistake, no matter how
innocent, is all it takes to cause ,a
disaster for yourself or your
neighbor. We hope you will do your
part to keep a lid on IT this year and
we hope we won’t have to write a
single story about its occurrence.
For more information about
laryngotracheitis (LT), including
symptoms, and precautionary and
security measures, please see the
article beginning on page 1.
Farm Calendar
then treat for eradication oL
the parasites.
TO BUYCAREFULLY,
THEN SEGREGATE F
The buying and selling of -
all species of livestock is
very comytnon in this part of.
the country. The traffic in
livestock is terrific. All
producers should use ex
treme care in buying only
healthy animals; be sure the
health papers are official
and that you are not buying
trouble.'
Also, the keeping of these
new animals separate from
the herd or flock for at least
30 days is an excellent
practice.
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